2014/2015
BA-BINBO1334U International Business Law
| English Title |
| International Business
Law |
|
|
| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Bachelor |
| Duration |
One Quarter |
| Course period |
Fourth Quarter, Summer |
| Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc in International
Business
|
| Course
coordinator |
- Andrej Savin - Law Department (LAW)
|
| Main academic
disciplines |
|
|
|
Last updated on
04-08-2014
|
| Learning objectives |
- Identify different kinds of sources of international law and
their relative importance.
- Understand the basics of negotiating and writing international
sales contracts
- Form awareness of the importance of various international
business law issues in the daily life of a corporation
- Explain how international legal disputes can be settled in
international tribunals and municipal courts.
- Formulate opinions for the resolution of the problems on the
basis of legal arguments that incorporate and correctly apply the
relevant sources of law.
|
| Examination |
|
International
Business Law:
|
| Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Written sit-in exam |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual |
| Assignment type |
Written assignment |
| Duration |
4 hours |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
One internal examiner |
| Exam period |
May/June and August, the regular exam takes place
in June. The make-up and re-examination takes place in
August. |
| Aids allowed to bring
to the exam |
Limited aids, see the list below and the exam
plan/guidelines for further information:
- Books and compendia brought by the examinee
- Notes brought by the examinee
- Allowed bodies of laws
- Allowed dictionaries
|
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If the number of registered candidates for the make-up
examination/re-take examination warrants that it may most
appropriately be held as an oral examination, the programme office
will inform the students that the make-up examination/re-take
examination will be held as an oral examination
instead.
|
Description of the exam
procedure
This is an open book exam meaning that
all materials are allowed (textbook, personal notes, lecture
slides, exercise solutions, articles, calculators, etc.) An
exception is any electronic device that makes it possible to
communicate with others, e.g. USB key.
PC exam with access to personal S-drive on CBS network.
Students do not have access to
Internet.
|
|
| Course content and structure |
|
The course provides a basic understanding of the legal framework
within which international businesses operate, enables the students
to analyse it and explores the rules that govern it. The course
looks at both private and public law background to international
business transactions. Within the first, it analyses the regulation
of multinational enterprises, international sales (with particular
emphasis on the Convention on the International Sales of Goods –
CISG), international dispute resolution, rules on financing foreign
trade and intellectual property law. Within the second, it looks at
foreign investment transactions and the importance of ethics, human
rights and corporate social responsibility in the legal framework.
Relation to a Business or an Institutional Setting: the course
operates through analyses of different types of companies,
international institutions, and supra-national institutions. This
will be done primarily through cases included in the required
reading.
Relation to International Business or Economics: the course
emphasizes the distinction between regulation of national and
international business activities and focuses primarily on issues
arising in the conduct of business activities across borders and
how this issues may be resolved through international and domestic
dispute resolution.
Research Based Teaching Elements: the lecturers own research will
be included in the lectures. Lectures, exercises and case study
discussions
|
| Teaching methods |
| Traditional lectures + exercises + case study
discussions |
| Expected literature |
|
Compendium + statutes, conventions and problems on CBS Learn.
Please note, minor changes may occur. The teacher will upload the
final reading list to Learn two weeks before the course
starts
|
Last updated on
04-08-2014
Permalink